BEST-SELLERS

Fiction

  1. THE ROOSTER BAR by John Grisham. Three students at a sleazy for-profit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.

  2. TWO KINDS OF TRUTH by Michael Connelly. While he investigates the murder of two pharmacists, an old case comes back to haunt Harry Bosch.

  3. ORIGIN by Dan Brown. A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.

  4. TWIN PEAKS: THE FINAL DOSSIER by Mark Frost. Updated profiles on the residents of Twin Peaks are assembled by special agent Tamara Preston.

  5. UNCOMMON TYPE by Tom Hanks. Seventeen short stories, each incorporating a typewriter, by the Academy Award-winning actor.

  6. DEEP FREEZE by John Sandford. Virgil Flowers is called to investigate in Trippton, Minn., when a local bank’s president is found dead in a nearly frozen river.

  7. SLEEPING BEAUTIES by Stephen King and Owen King. Women who fall asleep become shrouded in mysterious cocoons while the men battle one another.

  8. A COLUMN OF FIRE by Ken Follett. A pair of lovers find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict while Queen Elizabeth fights to maintain her throne.

  9. MANHATTAN BEACH by Jennifer Egan. The first female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II tries to understand why her father disappeared.

  10. IN THE MIDST OF WINTER by Isabel Allende. The lives of a university professor, an undocumented worker and a Chilean academic intersect after a car accident during a snowstorm in Brooklyn.

Nonfiction

  1. LEONARDO DA VINCI by Walter Isaacson. A biography of the Italian Renaissance polymath which connects his work in various disciplines.

  2. BOBBY KENNEDY by Chris Matthews. The New York senator’s journey from his formative years to his tragic run for president.

  3. ANDREW JACKSON AND THE MIRACLE OF NEW ORLEANS by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. Major General Jackson takes on the British in Louisiana.

  4. SISTERS FIRST by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush. How the twin daughters of former president George W. Bush grew up in the public eye.

  5. GRANT by Ron Chernow. A biography of the Union general of the Civil War and two-term president of the United States.

  6. KILLING ENGLAND by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. Major events and battles during the Revolutionary War are told from several perspectives.

  7. WHAT HAPPENED by Hillary Rodham Clinton. An inside look at her campaign and how she recovered in its aftermath.

  8. WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A series of essays that cover each year of the Obama administration and the writer’s own journey.

  9. ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY by Neil deGrasse Tyson. A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the universe.

  10. WHAT DOES THIS BUTTON DO? by Bruce Dickinson. The lead singer of Iron Maiden discusses his time as a competitive fencer, airline pilot and cancer survivor.

Paperback fiction

  1. THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS by Rupi Kaur.

  2. MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur.

  3. IT by Stephen King.

  4. THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 by Ruth Ware.

  5. THE BLACK BOOK by James Patterson and David Ellis.

Paperback nonfiction

  1. BEING MORTAL by Atul Gawande.

  2. SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent.

  3. THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls.

  4. THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE by Thomas L. Friedman.

  5. NUDGE by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein.

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